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Hillary Chute
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Hillary Chute is the Author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere and a Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. Her new book focuses on the maturing field of Comics, as she likes to call it, with the popularity of the graphic novel form. In this interview she breaks down the chapters of her book into Why Punk? Why Sex? Why Suburbs, and weighs in on the political power of comics, their cultural place in American history and the power of the drawn line. Heidi Legg dives in with Comics expert, author and Professor Hillary Chute in this compelling interview around a maturing field long nascent in America covering everything from superheroes, comics classics, graphic novels, sexual harassment, free speech, the emerging comics in the form of editorial and journalism and more.
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